Finding the length(x) of a label?

[sintua]

I don't know if anyone has come across this issue, but: I would like to find the length of a label. Given that label's "scale" is used for something other than the actual width, is there a way to pull this off? I'm sure I could do some math on the length of the string but that wouldn't account for the non-monospace font.

Specifically, I'm trying to create a "ticker" sort of effect like SimCity with various-length headlines scrolling along the bottom, with windows sized to hold the headline, starting just after the previous one finished and continuing in a scroll. I'll need the label length to size the text window, and to connect them in one continual string.

[Buey]

You could try to use a UITable to automatically position the elements.  I'm not sure if it accounts for the string length in a label, but it's worth a shot.

[edit]

It looks like UITable does work.  If you still want to do it manually, you could look at UITable's source to see how it's accounting for the string length.

[ArenMook]

UIFont.CalculatePrintedSize. Don't forget to scale that value by the label's localScale.